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You can now pair multiple Google Home smart speakers together as a stereo pair. This was originally introduced for the Google Max speakers but is now available for all Home smart speakers. To set up a speaker pair > open the Google Home app > tap on one of the speakers you want to pair > then...

Google has added some more new functionality to their line of Home speakers where you can move your current playing music (or movies / videos) from one device to another. Let's say you have multiple speakers in different rooms and you are listening to music in your kitchen and you want it to...

Google recently announced some new Assistant functionality that should be rolling out soon: the ability to set reminders for your family, friends or anyone else with an Assistant device that you add to your "Family Group". This sounds like it could be very useful; especially for busy families...

Since the other Google Home / Assistant threads had some interest, let's continue. You can use your Google Home device to help plan your day, and get information about your day. You can get things like travel time to work, directions to a specific location, read your calendar events, check the...

This is another Home function that is not new, this has been available for quite a while; but may be helpful to those that are not aware or just setting up Home devices. You can use the Home app on your phone to create Groups and link multiple Home devices together so music (or other audio)...

This is not new, Assistant Routines has been around for a while now. But it's worth posting for those that may not be familiar with the functionality. You can use Routines on your Google Home devices to perform multiple tasks with one command. From the Google support page: "Get daily help...

Since we had some interest yesterday in using the Home - Broadcast feature, I figured it was worth a new post. You can broadcast to all of your Google Home devices from one Home device, or from your phone if it meets all requirements. Check out the Google Support page below for more...

Did you know you can use your Google Home (or Mini) to make phone calls? This is not new, it has been around for a while now in the U.S., U.K., and Canada. But I figured it's worth a post for those that may not know you can set it up to make hands free calls. You can even set it to display...

Did you (or someone you know) receive a Google Home, Home Mini, Home Hub or Home Max during the Holidays? Looking for some basic "how-to" information for your smart speaker? C-Net has put together a list of useful tips for using Google's Home smart speakers. Source (C-Net): 27 tips for your...

One of the main features of Google Home is the ability to Play music. It is a speaker afterall. Af first the device was only able to play Music from Google's catalog. This feature is pretty useless for anyone who is not a Google Play Music subscriber. Google recently added the ability to play...

If you were doubting the usefulness of Google Home now you can rest assured that the device will at least be able to understand what you are saying. The Google Home along with Google Assistant can now understand 95% of Language. That's up from 80% in 2013. Google credits their algorithm for the...

The key to success with any Smart home device is to get in early. Once you have someone tied in to your echo system it is very hard for that person to change to something else. I have already began to notice this with my Google Home. I received a Google Home for free with my LG G6. I quickly...

Saying "OK Google" to activate your Google Home or Google Assistant can be a bit annoying especially when you have to activate it back to back. It would be nice to be able to change the hot word. It looks like Google is considering giving us that option. Rishi Chandra, VP of Google Home...

Voice assistants have been making all kinds of progress in the past few years. They are smarter in the way they communicate with people, and can recognize questions that are being asked with ease providing pertinent information to the end users. There seems to be one big hangup with the tech...

Just in time for Mother's day Google has discounted their Google Home at several retailers. This means you will only have to shell out $114 for the Google Assistant powered speaker. The discounted Google Home is available at BestBuy, Verizon, Newegg, and the Play Store. Newegg will also throw in...

If you have purchased a single Google Home for your family to use you may have been annoyed that it only had support for one user. This meant that you get only news briefings from one Google account and could only do tasks like setting alarms and adding items to list for that same account...

Over the past few days there have been many complaints that Google Home is injecting Beauty And The Best ads into normal search results. If you ask it for the weather it will give you your normal weather report and then ad at the end "By the way, Beauty and The Beast opens in theaters today"...

Home Phones are dead right? These days it seems like almost everyone uses cell phones primarily. The only reason I still have a home phone is because I get it for free as I work for the phone company. I certainly would not pay for a land line. There are certain issues where I have found my land...

Google Home just gets better and better. It is beginning to look even better than Alexa. Google has just added a few new feature to the new home automation platform. You can now cast Netflix with Google Home. Just say something like, "Ok Google play House Of Cards from Netflix on my TV" and your...